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Mina Kerr-Lazenby11:49, Jul 29 2021 RED BULL Red Bull's iconic Flugtag competition for homemade flying contraptions is coming to New Zealand for the first time in 17 years. Come November 27, teams of brave inventors will hurl themselves off an Auckland pier and into the waters below, all in the name of Flugtag. It’s a welcome return to New Zealand for the Red Bull Flugtag competition, which last graced our shores in 2004 when it was hosted in Wellington. The competition will see amateur aviators design, build and then fly contraptions in a bid to be crowned winner. The thousands of peopl...

Project Auckland: Clarity emerges from under a Covid cloud 4 Mar, 2021 03:59 PM 8 minutes to read Te Nukuao in Silo Park extension. NZ Herald By: Bill Bennett Panuku Development Auckland CEO David Rankin says it's still too early to get a clear picture of how Auckland will emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. Uncertainty clouds the picture. Yet, he says, much of the city's economy has shown itself to be resilient and Government figures indicate a fast bounce-back could be under way. "Certain things are clear," Rankin says. "One is that there has been a huge impact on businesses in the city cent...